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A starting point for the present work was the statement recently discussed in the literature that two Hamiltonian formulations for the theory of gravity, the one proposed by Dirac and the other by Arnowitt - Deser - Misner, may not be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-07 T. P. Shestakova

Fermions are coupled to the Einstein-Cartan system in the canonical formulation, including the cosmological, the Barbero-Immirzi, and the non-minimal coupling constants. The resulting ten first-class constraints generate gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-02 Erick I. Duque

We discuss the Dirac quantization of two dimensional gravity with bosonic matter fields. After defining the extended Hamiltonian it is possible to fix the gauge completely. The commutators can all be obtained in closed form; nevertheless,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. C. B. Abdalla , F. P. Devecchi , E. Abdalla

In the study of alternative or extended theories of gravity, Dirac's Hamiltonian constraint algorithm is invaluable for enumerating the propagating modes and gauge symmetries. For gravity, this canonical approach is frequently applied as a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Will Barker

A detailed Dirac's canonical analysis for a topological four dimensional $BF$-like theory with a compact dimension is developed. By performing the compactification process we find out the relevant symmetries of the theory, namely, the full…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-04 Alberto Escalante , Moisés Zárate Reyes

An algebraic analysis of the Hamiltonian formulation of the model two-dimensional gravity is performed. The crucial fact is an exact coincidence of the Poisson brackets algebra of the secondary constraints of this Hamiltonian formulation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 A. M. Frolov , N. Kiriushcheva , S. V. Kuzmin

We review the Dirac formalism for dealing with constraints in a canonical Hamiltonian formulation and discuss gauge freedom and display constraints for gauge theories in a general context. We introduce the Dirac bracket and show that it…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 Jon Allen , Richard A. Matzner

Loop quantum gravity in its Hamiltonian form relies on a connection formulation of the gravitational phase space with three key properties: 1.) a compact gauge group, 2.) real variables, and 3.) canonical Poisson brackets. In conjunction,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-09 Norbert Bodendorfer , Konstantin Eder , Xiangdong Zhang

By using the Gitman-Lyakhovich-Tyutin canonical analysis for higher-order theories a four-dimensional Chern-Simons modification of general relativity is analyzed. The counting of physical degrees of freedom, the symmetries, and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-22 Alberto Escalante , J. Aldair Pantoja-Gonzalez

We analyse the constraint structure of the Background Field model for three dimensional gravity including a cosmological term via the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism. We find the complete set of involutive Hamiltonians that assures the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-23 N. T. Maia , B. M. Pimentel , C. E. Valcárcel

Starting from a local action for mimetic gravity that includes higher derivatives of a scalar field $\phi$, we derive a gauge-fixed canonical action of the theory in the ADM canonical formalism in the time gauge $\phi=t$. This reduced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 Marco de Cesare , Viqar Husain

A detailed Dirac's and Faddeev-Jackiw quantization of Bonzom-Livine model describing gravity in three dimensions is performed. The full structure of the constraints, the gauge transformations and the generalized Faddeev-Jackiw brackets are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-08 Alberto Escalante , Jaime Manuel Cabrera

Exotic General Massive Gravity is the next-to-simplest gravitational theory fulfilling the so-called third-way consistency, the simplest being Minimal Massive Gravity. We investigate the canonical structure of the first-order formulation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-31 Omar Rodríguez-Tzompantzi

The Hamilton-Jacobi [$HJ$] analysis for higher-order Chern-Simons gravity is performed. The complete set of $HJ$ Hamiltonians are identified and a fundamental $HJ$ differential is constructed, from which the characteristic equations are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-12-20 Alberto Escalante , J. Aldair Pantoja-Gonzalez , D. Vanessa Castro-Luna

We develop a systematic Hamiltonian formulation for a gravitating topological matter system in three-dimensional spacetime, coupling a scalar gauge field and a rank-2 antisymmetric gauge field to Einstein--Cartan gravity. We perform the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Omar Rodríguez-Tzompantzi

Constraint analysis of the three-dimensional massive gravity, the so- called new massive gravity, is studied in the Palatini formalism. We show that amongst 6 components of the metric, 2 are dynamical, which is compatible with the existence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-26 M. Sadegh , A. Shirzad

We investigate the canonical structure of the bosonic sector of the unique maximal supergravity theory in five dimensions that is manifestly invariant under the global action of E$_{6(6)}(\mathbb{R})$. Starting from the Lagrangian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-04 L. T. Kreutzer

A summary is given of some results and perspectives of the hamiltonian ADM approach to 2+1 dimensional gravity. After recalling the classical results for closed universes in absence of matter we go over the the case in which matter is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Pietro Menotti

We perform the Hamiltonian analysis of the specific model of the non-linear massive gravity in Stuckelberg formalism where the square root structure is replaced by introducing auxiliary fields. We show that the constraint structure of given…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 J. Kluson

Among theoretical issues in General Relativity the problem of constructing its Hamiltonian formulation is still of interest. The most of attempts to quantize Gravity are based upon Dirac generalization of Hamiltonian dynamics for system…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-09 T. P. Shestakova